Method for controlling hygiene of a portable packaged food container
AssigneeEcolab USA Inc.
InventorsWenbin Wei, Ying Zhang, Zhili Ding, Huarong Yu
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Abstract
A method is provided for operating a system to automatically conduct hygiene cycles for a confined space such an interior space of a box suitable for storing and/or carrying packaged food. The system may include a hygiene device that can be attached to the box to conduct the hygiene cycles and a mobile device that can wirelessly communicate with the hygiene device to control the conduction of the hygiene cycles. The method may include automatically collecting information related to the hygiene cycles using the hygiene device and transmitting the collected information to a network directly or through the mobile device.
Claims20
A method for controlling hygiene of a portable box for transportation of deliverable packaged foods, the method comprising:
- transmitting a cycle start command to a portable hygiene device using a mobile device, the hygiene device attached to the box and configured to conduct hygiene cycles and to record information related to performance of the hygiene cycles including a location where each hygiene cycle of the hygiene cycles is performed, the cycle start command starting a hygiene cycle of the hygiene cycles;
- receiving the recorded information from the hygiene device using the mobile device;
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- determining whether the hygiene cycles are conducted in compliance with a hygiene procedure established to ensure food safety using the received recorded information including the locations where the hygiene cycles are performed, including determining a number of food deliveries between two cycles of the conducted hygiene cycles using the locations.
A method for maintaining hygiene of a portable box configured to be carried by a user for transportation of deliverable items, the method comprising:
- conducting hygiene cycles each including spraying a hygiene agent in liquid form into the box using a portable hygiene device attached to the box;
- controlling the conduction of each hygiene cycle of the hygiene cycles automatically using a mobile device configured to be carried by a user of the box and to be communicatively coupled to the hygiene device, the mobile device configured to receive a hygiene cycle schedule from a network, to learn ordering and delivery status of the deliverable items, to initiate the each hygiene cycle according to all the hygiene cycle schedule and the learned ordering and delivery status, to automatically learn the user's workload, and to adjust the hygiene cycle schedule according to the learned user's workload;
- recording information related to performance of each hygiene cycle of the hygiene cycles using the hygiene device;
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- transmitting the recorded information from the hygiene device to the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.